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heavily and keep the leaves picked back and the result is amazing in the 
size and quantity of bloom. Do not let seed-vessels form. For other 
varieties see Red and Yellow An., June. Slightly self-sowing, June to 
October. 
NEMOPHILA (IV. maculata). 1 ft. A low prostrate plant bearing 
white wheel-shaped flowers with a violet patch on each petal. Good 
as an edging plant. Does best in moist soil and partial shade. Self- 
sowing, June to August. See Blue An., June. 
Poppy. California, see Eschscholtzia. 
Porpy. Shirley (Papaver Rheas, var. Shirley). 3 ft. If the seed is 
fall-sown, the Shirley Poppy blooms in June; if sown as soon as the 
ground is mellow in the spring, it does not bloom until July. By ob- 
serving this and by planting a second or third time in the Spring one 
can have a long succession of these lovely flowers, which range through 
every tone of pure white, white with pale pink margins, shell pink, rose 
pink, scarlet and deep red. They last but a day owing to the rough 
way the bees wallow among the stamens; but if cut very early in the 
morning, they will last three days in the house. Of all the flowers in 
the garden none is more satisfactory than the Poppy, and of all Poppies 
the Shirley is the finest. I have had single plants that bore from 20 to 
30 blooms a day for ten weeks. They are difficult to transplant, though 
I have done it successfully by watering the plant well, taking up some 
earth about the roots, and making a deep cut hole with a small pointing 
trowel, then dropping in the root full length. Cover with a Neponset 
pot for three or four days, removing the pot at night, keeping the plant 
well watered. Each plant should have at least four to six inches of 
ground to itself, which is enough if the coarse lower leaves are kept 
picked off. Save only the first perfect seed-vessel, and cut off all others 
as they form. Self-sown seeds make the strongest as well as earliest 
plants. Give full sun and any good soil. 
ScHIZAPETALON (S. Walkeri). gin. A singular plant with almond- 
scented white flowers with cut petals, borne in terminal leafy racemes. 
Transplant very carefully so as not to injure the long tap root; if 
possible sow where it is to remain. Give a sandy loam. June to 
September. 
SWEET SULTAN (Centaurea moschata, var. alba). 1} ft. A plant al- 
lied to Bachelor’s Button, bearing sweet-scented white fringed flowers 
on long stems; grows in any soil. June to September. Also yellow and 
blue varieties. 
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